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We study the problem of evaluating the excess risk of large-scale empirical risk minimization under the square loss. Leveraging the idea of wild refitting and resampling, we assume only black-box access to the training algorithm and develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Haichen Hu , David Simchi-Levi

Due to its low computational cost, Lasso is an attractive regularization method for high-dimensional statistical settings. In this paper, we consider multivariate counting processes depending on an unknown function parameter to be estimated…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-08 Niels Richard Hansen , Patricia Reynaud-Bouret , Vincent Rivoirard

Logistic regression is a standard method in multivariate analysis for binary outcome data in epidemiological and clinical studies; however, the resultant odds-ratio estimates fail to provide directly interpretable effect measures. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-26 Takahiro Kitano , Hisashi Noma

Variable selection is one of the most important tasks in statistics and machine learning. To incorporate more prior information about the regression coefficients, the constrained Lasso model has been proposed in the literature. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Zengde Deng , Anthony Man-Cho So

Boosting as gradient descent algorithms is one popular method in machine learning. In this paper a novel Boosting-type algorithm is proposed based on restricted gradient descent with structural sparsity control whose underlying dynamics are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-18 Chendi Huang , Xinwei Sun , Jiechao Xiong , Yuan Yao

Inferring network structures remains an interesting question for its importance on the understanding and controlling collective dynamics of complex systems. The existing shrinking methods such as Lasso-type estimation can not suitably…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Lei Shi , Jie Hu , Huaiyu Tan , Libin Jin , Wei Zhong , Chen Shen

We develop a fast and robust algorithm for solving large scale convex composite optimization models with an emphasis on the $\ell_1$-regularized least squares regression (Lasso) problems. Despite the fact that there exist a large number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Xudong Li , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

The application of the lasso is espoused in high-dimensional settings where only a small number of the regression coefficients are believed to be nonzero. Moreover, statistical properties of high-dimensional lasso estimators are often…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-01-07 Bala Rajaratnam , Steven Roberts , Doug Sparks , Onkar Dalal

Network reconstruction is important to the understanding and control of collective dynamics in complex systems. Most real networks exhibit sparsely connected properties, and the connection parameter is a signal (0 or 1). Well-known…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-03 Lei Shi , Jie Hu , Libin Jin , Chen Shen , Huaiyu Tan , Dalei Yu

Using a multiplicative reparametrization, I show that a subclass of $L_q$ penalties with $q\leq 1$ can be expressed as sums of $L_2$ penalties. It follows that the lasso and other norm-penalized regression estimates may be obtained using a…

Computation · Statistics 2017-05-22 Peter D. Hoff

We consider model selection and estimation for partial spline models and propose a new regularization method in the context of smoothing splines. The regularization method has a simple yet elegant form, consisting of roughness penalty on…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-11-25 Guang Cheng , Hao Helen Zhang , Zuofeng Shang

Lasso regression is a widely employed approach within the $\ell_1$ regularization framework used to promote sparsity and recover piecewise smooth signals $f:[a,b) \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ when the given observations are obtained from noisy,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Yao Xiao , Anne Gelb , Aditya Viswanathan

We study the problem of variable selection in convex nonparametric least squares (CNLS). Whereas the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso) is a popular technique for least squares, its variable selection performance is…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-31 Zhiqiang Liao , Zhaonan Qu

We propose a two-stage penalized least squares method to build large systems of structural equations based on the instrumental variables view of the classical two-stage least squares method. We show that, with large numbers of endogenous…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-31 Chen Chen , Min Ren , Min Zhang , Dabao Zhang

An approximate method for conducting resampling in Lasso, the $\ell_1$ penalized linear regression, in a semi-analytic manner is developed, whereby the average over the resampled datasets is directly computed without repeated numerical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-11 Tomoyuki Obuchi , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

We introduce a novel scheme for choosing the regularization parameter in high-dimensional linear regression with Lasso. This scheme, inspired by Lepski's method for bandwidth selection in non-parametric regression, is equipped with both…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-09 Michaël Chichignoud , Johannes Lederer , Martin Wainwright

In this paper we analyze boosting algorithms in linear regression from a new perspective: that of modern first-order methods in convex optimization. We show that classic boosting algorithms in linear regression, namely the incremental…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Robert M. Freund , Paul Grigas , Rahul Mazumder

We study computational aspects of a key problem in robust statistics -- the penalized least trimmed squares (LTS) regression problem, a robust estimator that mitigates the influence of outliers in data by capping residuals with large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Xiang Meng , Andrés Gómez , Rahul Mazumder

A multiple interval-valued linear regression model considering all the cross-relationships between the mids and spreads of the intervals has been introduced recently. A least-squares estimation of the regression parameters has been carried…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Marta García Bárzana , Ana Colubi , Erricos John Kontoghiorghes

The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (lasso) and ridge regression produce usually different estimates although input, loss function and parameterization of the penalty are identical. In this paper we look for ridge and lasso…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-13 Stefan Hummelsheim